Chapter 5

The Miracle

Annabeth was amazed. At first she thought she was dead. Why not? She had bitten by a hellhound and lost a lot of blood while they were fleeing from a huge swarm of monsters. She was sure she was dead and on her way to the underworld.

Then she saw the man. A stranger who looked at her with a worried face. She had never seen him before but he gave off this feeling of warmth and protection. She felt him put something in her mouth and help her chew. Every rational thought in her told her to spit it out for fear it might be poison, But she didn't. She knew it might be dangerous but the man in front of her had no sense of harm in his face and she knew that she was going to die anyway. Funny, it tasted like lima beans.

As she swallowed it everything suddenly stopped hurting. She thought she had died or had been poisoned with some sort of tranquilizer. But she could still feel the floor under her and see the room and the stranger. Then she realized she could move as she sat up and reached for her wound. It wasn't there. She could feel her flesh where it had been but there was nothing there, no blood, no wound, not even a scar.

"Good you're okay then." She heard from her left as the stranger was getting up. "I'm Jason and this is-"

He was cut off when Annabeth was tackled by Thalia who was crying with joy.

"Oh Annabeth thank the gods you're okay!" Thalia cried out hugging her tightly. "I thought we had lost you there." All the while Annabeth was trying to pull herself from Thalia's death grip comforting her.

Jason smiled at the scene and chuckled a bit watching the two, then something hit him, Thalia said 'they' had almost lost her. He quickly looked around the room to find the other person with them. As he turned around he saw a blonde teen a little younger than him passed out by a table.

Annabeth saw him as well and her heart dropped at the sight. She jumped out of Thalia's arms and was there at Luke's side before Jason could get anywhere near him. She started crying over him as Thalia followed her with tears still in her eyes.

"Luke please you can't die on us, not now." Annabeth cried out in distress. She was hunched over him, her face buried in his still chest. Jason tried to pull her off of Luke so he could help him. When he finally got to look at him he could tell he was exhausted to near death with several minor cuts actively bleeding. He started to pull out several rags from his backpack.

"Percy take these to the river and soak them in it." He said as he tossed the rags to Percy who nodded then ran out the door past the crying girls. He turned back to Luke and started checking his pulse. It was still pretty strong so he would probably pull through.

"Can't you give him what you used on me?" Annabeth asked/screamed at Jason.

"Sorry that was my last Senzu bean."

"Senzu what?" Thalia asked confused

"A magic bean that can heal most injuries and restore a person's energy. Unfortunately they're extremely hard to grow so that was the last one I have on me right now. Besides Luke is nowhere near as bad of shape as you were." Jason replied to Annabeth slightly annoyed that he didn't have any more Senzu beans.

Percy ran back in holding the wet rags he was sent out for. Jason took them and started wiping up Luke up and put one on his forehead. A few minutes later he started coming to.

"What happened last night?" was all he managed to get out before he was tackled to the ground by both Annabeth and Thalia who were crying and hugging him. He smiled as he started squirming to get out of their death grips.

"Ok, Ok, be careful or I might-"He said before he cut himself off. The reason why? He saw him. Standing behind them was a stranger smiling at the sight of them with a boy Annabeth's age at his side. It seemed that he noticed him to since he stopped smiling and got up from leaning against the wall. The boy noticed that a moved to hide behind him but changed his mind halfway and decided to stand his ground next to him.

"Who are you and what do you want?" Luke asked trying to be as intimidating as possible. The guy just brushed him off and smirk, something the son of Hermes took offense to. Annabeth and Thalia both stared at him worried about what might happen.

"My name's Jason and this is Percy," he said as he pointed to the boy next to him the scar below his eye giving him a look more mature than a kid his age would normally have, "I only came to help. I found Percy on his own in New York and I'm taking him to my place. We were waiting for our train to California when we heard the commotion and decided to help you out. I took out the monsters and healed you and Annabeth." He finished up, giving a look as if waiting for questions.

"Why did you help us, you could of left us to die." Luke asked deciding to ask how he got rid of the monsters later. Thalia thought that was rude of him to ask since he had saved them in the end. Annabeth however agreed with him since they had no idea who this person was or why he was there. She went back to trying to talk to Percy but he was still shy and nervous

"I have this thing against leaving people to die." Jason said as if it should have been obvious. "I don't leave people to die or to fend for themselves unless they can handle it, and it seemed a bit out of control here."

"Fair enough," Luke admitted though secretly embarrassed at the situation they got into, "but who exactly are you?"

Jason shrugged "Eh I suppose you deserve an answer. Well I guess I'm-"

AN: And i'm gonna end it there for now. Please read and review so i can tell what you think. And as a note Jason has traveled to various worlds and found all sorts of things Senzu beans being one of them.